War on Terror in Yemen Collapses; Libya in Shambles

• Obama gets a surprise when anti-U.S. group orchestrates coup against Western puppet.

By Richard Walker —

In yet another sign President Barack Hussein Obama’sinterventionist foreign policy in the MiddleEast is falling apart, his secret drone waragainst rebel fighters in Yemen is now in jeopardyafter a surprise coup in late Januarythrew out the entire pro-West government there.

Since 2011, Yemen has been at the epicenter ofWashington’s sanctioned killing program, usingdrones and Special Forces teams operating out ofbases in Saudi Arabia, Djibouti and Yemeni militarybases. The aim has been to degrade a Yemeni militiaknown as AQAP, or al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The American war in Yemen has been going on fornearly 12 years. When former Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld visited the Lemonier base in Djiboutiin 2002, he boasted it was an area where“there was a lot of action and we need to be wherethe action is.”

Washington’s increasing involvement in Yemencan be traced back to the Bush-Cheney era when itgot into bed with Yemen’s corrupt leader, Ali AbdullahSaleh, who had been in power since 1962.Saleh was forced out of power in 2013, but his controlover the military remained. It is still a militarybacked by money and training from Washington, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Washington got involved in Yemen at the behestof the Saudis and the Israelis. Both nations had avested interest in keeping the Saleh regime in place,even if it meant suppressing the rights of the country’sShiites, who made up almost 40% of the population.The Israelis and Saudis made the caseYemen overlooked the narrowest part of the RedSea where it entered the 20-mile waterway calledthe Bab-el-Mandeb strait, known in Arabic as the “Gate of Grief.”

It is through the Mandab that most Israeli imports and Saudi oil are transported.

Saudi Arabia had another agenda—a secret one.The Sunni Muslim leadership in Saudi Arabia hasbeen suppressing Shiites in its territory and wantedits neighbor, Yemen, to do likewise. Yemen turneda blind eye when the Saudis sent forces into Yemento kill Shiites. The move did not bother Washingtonor Israel, who saw the Shiites in Yemen as pro-Iranian and therefore enemies.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Yemeni Shiitesbecame anti-American and began agitating formore autonomy. Yemen’s military suppressed themand a decade later killed their leader, Hussein al-Houthi. After his assassination, they became known as the Houthis.

Today, the Houthis control large swaths ofYemen, including the capital. They forced Saleh outof power as well as his successor. The country isnow leaderless, a fact that worries Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

Washington, however, still has influence withinthe Yemeni military, which has a poor human rightsrecord. Yemen’s Special Forces have been trainedby the U.S. Special Forces Command in camps in Saudi Arabia and nearby Djibouti.

The Houthis, while they are anti-Washington,have fought terrorists in Yemen and have expressedno desire to attack America or U.S. forcesoperating in Yemen and elsewhere in the region.While the Saudis and Israelis brand them as pawnsof Iran, there is no proof that is the case. They are simply an offshoot of that brand of Islam.

However, if there is one country that could influencetheir thinking it is Iran, and Washingtonmay have to go cap-in-hand to Tehran to seek itshelp in forming an alliance with the Houthis if thedrone war against Arab revolutionaries across the Middle East is to continue, unhampered.

The other alternative is for Washington to conspirewith the Saudis and Israelis to encourage theYemeni military to seize power and suppress theHouthis. That would likely send the country into an even more deadly spiral.

Libya Still a Shambles After Four Years

By Richard Walker

Every several months, this newspaper likes totake a look at Libya to see whetherAmerica’s nation building is working.So far, the news has not been good.It’s been almost four years since theUnited States, England and Francehelped radical groups overthrow the Libyan governmentand assassinate its leader, MuammarQadaffi, and to this day the north African countryhas been unable to establish a stable governmentand begin rebuilding the devastated country.

Ironically, in 2011, British Prime Minister DavidCameron described Libya as a beacon of democracyjust before it descended into complete chaos.

Those who have since fought to control the countryhave been militias armed by the West or by wayof looting the country’s military arsenal.

The United Nations has been brokering a ceasefire betweenrival groups while trying to find a solution to Libya’sintractable issues. Meanwhile, the Libyan Army, runby former Qadaffi acolytes, recently admitted it washolding the money that had once been in the vaultsof the central bank. No one is sure, however, whatthe army intends to do with the cash.

Nevertheless, it is not Libya’s conflict that hasbeen attracting attention, but secret files of Qadaffi’sintelligence service looted during his overthrow in2011. They ended up in the hands of Londonlawyers who have been studying them to make acase against the British government.

The files expose the duplicity and hypocrisy offormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his dealings with Qadaffi, going back to 2007, a merefour years before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization decided to bomb Libya.

In a 2007 letter from the prime minister’s office at10 Downing Street, Blair addressed Qadaffi as “Dear Muammar” and wished him and his family well. Hehad already welcomed him back into the internationalfold, thereby enabling British and U.S. oil corporationsto negotiate big deals with Libya,including one for $15 billion.

The facts were staring the lawyers in the facewhen they examined the files. They found detailsabout five British citizens and seven Libyans thatBritish intelligence helped Qadaffi’s spies locate andtorture. Blair even encouraged the British courts toapprove the deportation of dissidents wanted byLibya.

The Saudis, whom Blair was close to, arrestedLibyans and tortured them, too. In some instances,British intelligence agents were in Libya and Saudi Arabia during interrogations that led to torture.

One Response to War on Terror in Yemen Collapses; Libya in Shambles

In 2001 there were a FEW thousand terrorists, mostly just barefoot illiterates with small bases in Afghanistan and Somalia with NO presence in Iraq. Now, thanks to the superior war fighting skills and knowledge of the Military Geniuses in the Pentagon there are tens of thousands with strongholds in Libya, Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia, Syria/Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.

Thanks to Abu Graihb, Guantanamo, Secret Dungeons out of the Feudal Dark Ages. Thanks to mental defectives such as “Prince” who has to change his name every few months to HIDE from his own actions.

These Child murdering MERCENARIES are CREATING terrorists.

By the way, the rate of HOMOSEXUALITY among “mercenaries” is very high; they like being in a “MANLY” environment.

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